Charlotte Perriand’s interest for lighting dates back to her education at the School of decorative arts of Paris, from 1920 to 1925. When she was 20, she got the silver medal in the lighting competition held by the Société d’encouragement à l’art et l’industrie. In 1929, in the “the big interior designers” column, published on “La Semaine à Paris” newspaper, charlotte Perriand’s name was followed by the mention “modern installation, furniture, decoration, lighting” . Her interest for artificial lighting was constant. Certainly, all her architectural or interior projects for residences involved a lighting study. Whenever she had insufficient budget for her works, she selected available objects to hack “lighting needs”. In the ‘20s, she usedsome Kodak movie projectors or the headlight of a car to light houses up.

A part from the famous collaboration with Pierre Janneret and Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand also worked with another great architect of those times: Jean Prouvé.

Perriand’s influence on the Prouvé's atelier was so deep that while in 1938 she designed this lamp and named it Potence Pivotante, in 1950 Jean Prouvé designed his Potence, considered one of the paradigms of his genius, which is based on the same idea that Perriand had 10 years before.